Cook County AA Meetings Mondays: Open Meeting, 7:30 PM, Grand Marais Senior Center (1st Monday of the month is potluck/speaker meeting. Potluck at 6:30 PM and speaker at 7:30). Tuesdays: Big Book Study Group, Open Meeting, 6:00 PM, First Congregational Church in Grand Marais. Wednesdays: 12 Step Study Meeting, 6:30 PM, Arrowhead Electric Co-op building, Lutsen. Thursdays: Women’s Meeting, Noon, […]
West End Calendar
Tofte Town Meeting Held the 2nd Thursday of each month, 7:00 p.m. at the Tofte Town Hall, 7240 Tofte Park Road. 3/13tfn Lutsen Township Monthly Meetings Held the third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. at the Lutsen Town Hall located at 116 Caribou Trail. 4-17tfn Schroeder Town Meetings Held the second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m. […]
Seagull silliness
Watching the seagulls hover over the final event of Fisherman’s Picnic— the fish toss on Sunday afternoon, just before the drawing for the grand prize of $10,000—I was reminded of how omnipresent seagulls are in our North Shore life. They are always around when there is food, of course, and they are probably quite puzzled during Fisherman’s Picnic by the […]
Dancing light
Growing up in the Pacific Northwest I fell in love with the mountains: backpacking with friends and children. Nothing, I thought, could be as beautiful as a sweep of alpine meadow leading to a snow-capped peak. Then, 15 years ago, friends took me into the Boundary Waters and I fell in love again. Since then I’ve spent as much time […]
Historical Reflections
Do you have an old picture or a story from years gone by that you would like to share with Cook County News-Herald readers? Give us a call, or stop by our Grand Marais office. We’d love to hear your Historical Reflections. Call (218) 387-9100; e-mail starnews@boreal.org; or stop by our officeat 15 First Avenue West.
Down Memory Lane
10 Years Ago · Aug. 14, 2000 • A gondola at Lutsen Mountain slid backward into another gondola last Wednesday, injuring six people, one seriously. According to the Cook County Sheriff ’s Department, the accident occurred at about 12:45 p.m. near the summit of Moose Mountain. Gondola riders on the sightseeing tour were close to the ground when the accident […]
Lines in the Sand
You’ve undoubtedly heard the figure of speech “Don’t cross the line in the sand” or in my case on the North Shore of Lake Superior “Don’t cross the line in the beach rocks.” Never was this truer than the hallways of Cook County High. CCHS was not unique as I am sure all small town high schools have their social […]
You Never Know ends on a high note
The cast, crew, and orchestra of You Never Know, the Cole Porter musical that just finished its two-week run at the Grand Marais Playhouse, is very proud of its director, Sue Hennessy. On Saturday, August 7, 2010, Hennessy became Cook County’s 2010 Citizen of the Year. (See the article on her on the front page.) Thanks to Sue’s professionalism with […]
Dogspell – the Incredible Journey
For eons, religious leaders have been using metaphors to try to describe God. In Dogspell – The Gospel According to Dog, priest and author Mary Ellen Ashcroft adds a unique twist to this theme. God as “king,” quips Ashcroft, means little to her as she meets so little royalty. She does, however, have intimate knowledge of the love of a […]